What can we do to improve VG Chartz?

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KruzeS said:

ioi said:

The forum isn't all that different to vbulletin phpbb and so on. Even if I installed a custom forum such as that I would block most of the features. I like the fact this forum is simple and totally integrated into the site. What is wrong with the search? Timezones are something I keep meaning to add, ignoring users and rating users I don't want to go down, editing of thread titles and so on do need attending to when I get chance. Overall I can't really see what the forum is lacking.

I don't want to derrail this further if you think it's off topic, so short response.

What I miss in search is the stuff usually available under "advanced search": searching by post, or by thread; using boolean operators in search; searching by poster; searching by time; combining all this stuff up.

Far more useful than that (everyone I know uses this stuff), is the "new posts" search usually avalable, that shows all posts since the last login. And then, there's the even more advanced ways to track threads one has or hasn't read.

These would go a long way into making the forum experience better. Integrating news comments, etc, into this would help get all these features there as well.

KruzeS' suggestions are full of unlimited awesome and superior win.